The 210-place school, which would be run by the academy trust, which manages South Hunsley School and Sixth Form College, would open in September next year.

Chris Abbott, executive principal of Hunsley Trust said: "We have been working with the local community for the past 12 months and have been overwhelmed with the level of local support.

"To date we have had well over 100 families come to our consultation events and put forward support for our proposals.

"We hope to have some positive news to share with them in the spring, when we expect to hear whether our application has been approved by the Secretary of State for Education, Michael Gove."

The new school would have a strong focus on science and maths.

Lucy Hudson, interim head of Hunsley Primary, said: "Hunsley Primary students will be taught to apply scientific and mathematical methods with confidence so they become lively, enquiring individuals with creative, problem-solving minds.

"We are committed to developing an innovative free school that makes the most of its freedoms to impact positively on lives in the community and provide opportunities for all its children to make outstanding progress but, in particular it will stimulate and challenge children as mathematicians and scientists."

Hunsley Trust has been working with national charity New Schools Network on its application.

Natalie Evans, director of New Schools Network, said: "Hunsley Trust has worked hard to prepare an application for the Department for Education.

"We very much hope they will have the chance to put their plans into action when the Government announces later in the spring, which groups have been given the green light to open.

"There are nearly 300 free schools open or due to open this September, which are proving popular with parents and adding good new schools places to their local communities."

Hunsley Primary will be built at the heart of a new housing development, located south of the main Hull to Doncaster railway line and east of Skillings Lane, in Brough.

A single form entry school, Hunsley Primary will accommodate the children of families moving onto the new housing estate.

Ian Hodges, managing director of developer Horncastle Group, hopes to begin work later this year or early in 2015. The school would then open in September 2015.

Mr Hodges said: "The Hunsley Trust have their ideas on how they want to see the school run and the areas of excellence so it has been very much designed to adhere to their objectives.

"A planning application has been submitted to East Riding Council for reserved matters on the plans.

"We are hoping work will start in May or June on infrastructure works, including the relief road for the Brough development, because we can't deliver too much of the development until we have infrastructure in place."

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I recently left South Hunsley Sixth Form after my worst experience of education I have ever received. The staff have no time for students who are not achieving top grades, and do not take important situations seriously. Chris Abbott dismissed a report of cyber bullying and the student was let off on the matter as he was aiming to attend a top University. I was told not to attend School when Ofsted were in. Overall the School is ran as a business investment, and allowing young impressionable students to be taught under this influence is a scary thought, Chris Abbot only has time for people that make her life easier. I fear for those families who aren't as well off as others and those students who try to voice themselves within the classroom.

No parents are involved in setting up this school which appears to be dependent on S106 money. It will be interesting to see how parents will be consulted and those occupying the estate could face a fait accompli of no choice in the matter.